Among the rare-to-market works on offer during Master Drawings New York is a recently rediscovered double-sided drawing by Jacopo Pontormo. It is the only sheet being tendered by Connecticut dealer ...
In a bold move, Christopher Bishop Fine Art will anchor its exhibition with just one drawing at the 12th edition of Master Drawings New York (MDNY). The New York-based dealer has spent two years ...
If you ever watched The Sopranos, in which a member of the New Jersey mafia agrees to see a therapist, you may have noticed the classical painting hanging behind the king-sized bed of Tony and Carmela ...
Going to The Getty Museum to see the exhibition of drawings and paintings by 16 th - century Italian master Pontormo, I was prepared to pay homage to this great Florentine painter. What I was not ...
In the year 787 the Roman Catholic Church, in the Second Council of Nicaea, laid down rules for depiction in sacred art. The objective was to teach the Christian faith to the illiterate masses through ...
Jacopo Pontormo is among the strangest artists to have emerged from the Florentine Renaissance, a painter for whom nothing is poised and direct and everything seems on edge. There’s no one like him — ...
Founded in 1903, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present ...